There's no way Fury should have an equal or greater cost than an Apogee. Maybe play around a bit more with the nerfed Energy weapon mastery, because the old one made every non capital high tech ship seem vastly better than it actually is.
Fury doesn't need EWM to be exceptionally good. I've never actually used EWM on my Furies (due to forgetting and getting Gunnery Implants instead). Fury has a lot of things going for it at only 15 DP, if there's no other stat changes the Fury could easily become 18 DP.
What is exceptionally good about it lol?
Fury has
-Cruiser grade range
-Destroyer level base speed (90) with a forward mobility system that the AI no longer uses suicidally
(Compare to Falcon at 75 base speed and MJ, Falcon has a tiny edge in overall retreat speed and Fury has a significant advantage in overall pursuit speed)
-1 to 2 Medium Missile slots in a fairly flexible configuration at its DP is simply
excellent-Excellent flux dissipation relative to the weapons available, very good for a 15 DP combatant overall
(the combination of this factor and the missile factor allows for the Falcon to function as an excellent strike boat, able to use its huge flux dissipation to comfortably power a HB + 2 secondary small energy weapons in addition to the impressive output 2 medium missiles can produce.)
-Unusually cheap shield upkeep compared to its effectiveness, and compared to other high-tech cruisers.
(0.7 efficiency and 180 upkeep, compared to Apogee's 0.7 efficiency and 420 upkeep, or Aurora's 0.8 efficiency and 400 upkeep)
Compare it to a Hammerhead plus a frigate escort and you'll see it's not that crazy.
My current favorite All-Purpose Fury (HB, 2x EMR Sabot Pods, 2x Ion Cannons) convincingly KO's a Hammerhead + Omen escort with little fuss under AI control, and that's without skills, officers, or SP. Against less premium and more likely escorts in the campaign (ex: Lashers, Brawlers, Centurions) the Fury will effortlessly chew through the duo unsupervised, and that's before taking into account force multipliers like skills and S-mods.
The default game variants probably struggle against the matchup, but the Fury's default variants are terrible.